Description |
viii, 294 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
Contents |
Introduction: just any day in Wilcannia -- 1. Plenty of Aborigines, but no culture -- 2. Art and culture: the two main things, right? -- 3. Badger Bates: Granny Moysey's baby -- 4. Stakeholders and their dispositions: creating and selling 'art' and 'artists' -- 5. Art as an agent of social relations -- 6. Big Murray Butcher: 'We still doin' it' |
Summary |
"What does it mean when whites say that certain Australian Aboriginal people have "no culture" but accept that they have art? Why are notions and images of Aboriginal art and culture still dominated by those from the centre and north of the Australian continent, even though most Aborigines reside in the south-east? This book explores these questions, why they matter, and to whom they matter. It draws on extensive fieldwork with Barkindji Aboriginal people in the small country town of Wilcannia, New South Wales. The richly textured ethnographic analysis examines how notions of Aboriginal art and Aboriginal culture are wielded as weapons of power in everyday racism in Australia. In so doing, it demonstrates how Aboriginal people deploy ideas of art, artists and culture to assert individual and group identity, and to subvert dominant culture ideas and ideals which operate as tools of oppression, distancing and harm." -- book cover |
Analysis |
Australian |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-288) and index |
Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Wilcannia (N.S.W.) -- Ethnic identity.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Wilcannia -- Ethnic identity
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Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- New South Wales.
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Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Wilcannia (N.S.W.)
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Artists, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Wilcannia (N.S.W.)
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SUBJECT |
Wilcannia (N.S.W.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013047319 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850
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Wilcannia (N.S.W.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013047319 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
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ISBN |
1907774092 |
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9781907774096 |
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